Tense consistency and verb forms, sentence 7

The progressive forms use a form of "be" plus a verb ending in -ing: "I am playing" (present), "I was playing" (past).

Who acts: progressive forms, verb, Lancashire gran · What happens: use, end, play · To what, where: form, ing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tense consistency and verb forms» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (progressive forms, verb, Lancashire gran), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forms	det
2	progressive	progressive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 forms	amod
3	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 form	det
6	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 "	case
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 be	punct
9	be	be	NOUN	_	6 form	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 be	punct
11	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	13 verb	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 verb	det
13	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 form	conj
14	ending	end	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 verb	acl
15	in	in	SCONJ	_	17 ing	mark
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 in	punct
17	ing	ing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ending	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 playing	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 playing	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 playing	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 playing	aux
22	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 use	parataxis
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 playing	punct
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 present	punct
25	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 playing	parataxis
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 present	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 playing	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 playing	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 playing	aux
31	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 use	parataxis
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 playing	punct
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 past	punct
34	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 playing	parataxis
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	34 past	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use	present	the progressive forms	a form be plus a verb	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent form=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	end	gerund	a verb not said here	ing	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	play in a quote	present · progressive	a Lancashire gran = gran		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	play in a quote	past · progressive	a Lancashire gran = gran		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:english:031-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms.lesson:7.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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